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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ March 15, 1888. 
2. Personal admission to all the Society’s Exhibitions and Meetings 
at 12.30 o’clock, being an hour earlier (ban the general public. 
■ 3. To personal admission daily, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 
5 P.M., to the Society’s Eooms and to the Lindley Library, except on 
Sundays and holidays. 
4. To personal admission, between the same hours and with the same 
exceptions, to the Society’s Experimental Gardens at Chiswick. 
5. The privilege of sending fruit, flowers, and seeds to Chiswick for 
trial. 
C. To a share of such seeds, plants, cuttings, &c., as the Society may 
have in sufficient numbers for distribution. 
7. To purchase such fru’t and vegetables grown at Chiswick as are 
not required for the purposes of the Society. 
8. To a copy of all publications of the Society. 
9. To the right of voting at all meetings. 
A FELLOW PAYING TWO GUINEAS A YEAR IS ENTITLED— 
10. To a transferable ticket admitting two persons to all the Society’s 
Exhibitions and Shows. 
11. To the same privileges as mentioned in Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, (1, 7, 8, 
and 9. 
A FELLOW PAYING ONE GUINEA. A YEAR IS ENTITLED— 
12. To personal admission to all the Society’s Exhibitions and 
Shows. 
13. To the same privileges as mentioned in Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, C, 7, 8, 
and 9. 
AN ASSOCIATE PAYING HALF-A-GUINEA A YEAR IS ENTITLED— 
14. To a non-transferable ticket admitting to all the Society’s Exhi¬ 
bitions and Shows at 12.30 o’clock. 
16. To he present at meetings, but without I'oting on any matters 
relating to the affairs of the Society. 
N.B. — Associates must be hona fide gardeners or employes in a 
nursery, market garden,or seed establishment, and must be recommended 
for election by t«o Fellows of the Society. 
The Society being incorporated by Royal charter the Fellows and 
Associates incur no personal liability beyond the payment of their annual 
subscriptions. 
The Society’s Exhibitions and Shows are held in the drill hall of the 
London Scottish Volunteers, James’ Street, Westminster, about equi¬ 
distant from the Victoria and St. James’ Park stations of the District 
Railway, and close to the Society’s rooms at 111, Victoria Street, and to 
the Army and Navy Stores. 
Note.—Any lady or gentleman desirous of joining the Society may 
obtain forms and full particulars on application to the Secretary, the 
Society’s offices. South Kensington, up to the 25th of March, and there¬ 
after at the offices. 111. Victoria Street. 
General Meeting.— At a general meeting of the Society held the 
■same day in the Conservatory (Maxwell T. Masters, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., 
in the chair), the following candidates were duly elected Fellows of the 
Society—viz., John G. Adams, F. Hayman, A. Lovesay, A. S. Mont¬ 
gomery, T. Y. Moore, William PodgM-, John Reid, W. G. Rowlett. It 
was announced that twenty-eight guinea Fellows whose names had 
been received would be proposed for election at an early date. 
COMMIITEBS. 
The last of the Committee meetings at South Kensington was held 
on Tuesday in the conservatory, and the event was not signalised by 
many remarkable exhibits. Several intei’esting groups were contributed 
by nurserymen and amateurs, which occupied a portion of the tables, 
but neither in quality nor quantity was the display equal to many of 
its predecessors. Those who remember the grand opening day on 
June 6th, 1861, and who witnessed the practical termination of the 
Society’s occupation of the gardens on Tuesday last, would perhaps feel 
inclined to moralise. Cordial wishes were, however, expressed that the 
change being made might prove the commencement of a more satisfac¬ 
tory and prosperous career elsewhere. 
Fruit Cojimittee. —Harry J. Veitch, Esq., in the chair, and 
Messrs. John Lee, Harrison Weir, G. W. Cummins, C. Howe, John 
Woodbridge, Alfred J. Pearson, Sidney Ford, G. T. Miles, J. Smith, G. 
Norman, John Burnett, J. Willard, J. Wright, R. D. Blackmore, J. Cheal, 
and Philip Crowley. The duties of the Committee were very light on 
this the last occasion of sitting at South Kensington. Mr. W. Divers, 
The Gardens, Wierton House, Maidstone, sent a collection of nineteen 
dishes of Apples and Pears and a dish of large Oranges unnamed. The 
Apples were very good and well kept, the Oranges of excellent quality. 
A vote of thanks was awarded. Mr. j. Crook, gardener to Mi's. Sherwin, 
Farnborough Grange, Hants, sent eleven dishes of Apples and two 
bunches of Lady Downe’s Grapes, one grown on a Vine grafted on the 
Cannon Hall Muscat ; the other by the side of it on its own roots, the 
berries of the former being decidedly firmer and fresher (vote of thanks). 
A similar mark of approval was granted to Mr. Burnett, Deepdene, for 
a dish of Calville Blanche Apples grown on a south wall at Deepdene. 
This fruit was of good size, greenish yellow, deliciously sweet and 
tender. A vote of thanks was also accorded to Mr. J. Hudson, who sent 
from Gunnersbury House, Acton, a dish of Golden Noble Apple, beauti¬ 
fully clear, firm, and fresh. A clump of Mushrooms in one cluster 
weighing 2 lbs. was exhibited by Rev. G. Henslow, and described by him 
as having been grown from spawn supplied by Messrs. Cutbush & Son. 
At the close of the business Mr. Veitch in a few well-chosen words 
referred to the meeting as the last they would attend there, expressinga 
desire that all the members of the Committee would meet on the 27th 
inst. in the Exhibition hall at Westminster, and in every way in their 
power aid the Society in its future career. Different views might be 
entertained in respect to the course to be pursued, but there could only 
be one desire amongst them in seeking to place the Society in the 
position it should occupy in the horticultural world. Unanimous assent 
given to the Chairman’s remarks. 
Floral Committee.— Present : G. F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., in the 
chair ; and Messrs. J. Laing, W. Wilks, G. Nicholson, 51. T. 5Iasters, H. 
Herbst, 5V. Bates, J. H. Lowe, G. Duffield, G. Paul, W. Holmes, R. Dean, 
H. Ballantine, B. Wynne, C. Pilcher, J. Dominy, H. M. Pollett, A. F. 
Lendy, J. O’Brien, E. Hill, W. Wildsmith, Shirley Hibberd, and 5V. 
Goldring. 
Only three certificates were granted on this occasion, but four plants 
were found worthy of cultural commendations, and four medals were 
awarded to the nurserymen. A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Walling- 
ton (gardener, 5Ir. G. W. Cummins) showed large panicles of Cj'rtopo- 
dium Saintlegerianum, one with 106 and the other with 108 flowers, the 
latter being a much more highly coloured variety, the wings of the lip 
reddish chocolate, the sepals copiously spotted with a similar colour, and 
the petals yellow (cultural commendation). An illustration of the plant 
was given in this Journal, page 266, April 1st, 1886. A vote of thanks 
was also accorded for a good variety of Coelogyne cristata. G. C. Raphael, 
Esq., Castle Hill, Englefield Green, sent a plant of Lycaste plana, 
which has greenish sepals, and white petals dotted like the lip with rose 
(vote of thanks). 5Ir. J. W. klachattie, Newbattle Gardens, Dalkeith, 
showed flowers of a seedling Rhododendron with bell-shaped white 
handsome corollas. 5Ir. H. Perkins, The Greenlands, Henley-on- 
Thames, exhibited a plant of Dendrobium Cooksoni, Greenland’s variety, 
which had eight flowering growths and some scores of its peculiar 
flowers, the petals coloured and marked exactly like the lip (cultural 
commendation). F. G. Tautz, Esq., Studley House, Hammersmith 
(gardener, Mr. Cowley), showed three Cypripediums, C. Harrisianum 
vivicans being much the best with dark reddish polished flowers ; C. 
Measuresianum. of a yellow tint ; and C. Dauthieri marmoratum. T. 
Wigan, Esq., Clare liawn. East Sheen (gardener, 5Ir. D. East), was 
awarded a cultural commendation for Dendrobium Wardianum, with a 
number of growths 3 to 4 feet high, stout, and bearing abundance of 
large flowers. It was said to have been imported in February, 1887, 
The small white Coelogyne sparsa r Iso came from the same garden (vote 
of thanks). 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 51.P., Burford Lodge, Dorking, contri¬ 
buted some Orc'iids, besides the new Utricularia, which was certificated. 
Angrtecum Sanderianum was represented by a vigorous plant with four 
long racemes of white flowers. There was a fine raceme of the remark¬ 
ably rich-tinted Phaius tuberculosus superbus, and the small Coelogyne 
sparsa already noted. H. M. Pollett, Esq., Fernside, Bickley, sent an 
uncommonly well-grown plant of Odontoglossum blandum, bearing 
seven racemes of its neatly spotted flowers (cultural commendation) ; 
and a distinct variety of 0. crispum, the sepals heavily blotched with 
reddish chocolate, the petals white with one or two spots each (vote of 
thanks). F. C. Jacomb, Esq., 11, Amherst Park, Stamford Hill, showed 
a group of Odontoglossums, comprising choice varieties of crispum, 
AVilekeanum, triumphans superbum, Andersonianum, Rossi majus, 
macculatum, and Pescatorei, forming a pretty group that deserved some 
other recognition than a vote of thanks. Mr. Crook, The Gardens, 
Farnborough Grange, Hants, sent a fresh and beautiful collection of 
forced Rose blooms, comprising AA'iUiam Allen Richardson, Gloire de 
Dijon, Fortune’s Yellow, Niphetos, Reve d’Or, and Adam, together with 
blooms of Primula obconica, Lachenalia pendula, and Tremandra eriere- 
folia (vote of thanks). 
Flowers of Beaumontia grandiflora from Mr. J. Anning, The Gardens, 
Digswell House, AVelwyn, Herts, were greatly admired. They have 
tubular corollas 6 inches long by 4 in diameter at the mouth, the five 
broad lobes recurving slightly and pure white (cultural commendation). 
Of the nurserymen’s exhibits the most important were the following: 
—5Iessrs. J. A'^eitch & Sons, Chelsea, had a group comprising the bright 
yellow and early Azalea pontica altaclerense, the beautiful free-flowering 
Boronia heterophylla, loaded with its rich ro.sy crimson bud-like flowers; 
Rhododendron Early Gem, one of the praecox style, dwarf in habit, with 
numerous rosy tinted flowers, very free and useful for pot culjture ; 
Primula obconica, Trillium discolor atratum, very dark-coloured 
flowers, and a white-berried Aucuba japonica (vote of thanks). Mr. 
T. S. AVare, Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, contributed a large and 
choice group of Daffodils and hardy flowers effectively arranged (silver 
Banksian medal). Messrs. R. A’'eitch & Son, Exeter, sent plants of the 
dwarf bulbous Tocophylaja cyanocrocus with pure briglt blue flowers, 
and a variety named Leichtlini, in whieh the flowers are white edged 
with pale blue (vote of thanks), klessrs. Paul & Son, Chesbunt, had a 
collection of choice alpine plants and a new H.P. Rose named Lady 
Alice, of the same style, but paler in colour ttan Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, 
also a pretty little Fairy China Rose named Red Pet (bronze Banksian 
medal). Messrs. Barr & Son, King Street. Covent Garden, showed a 
large and interesting group of selected Daffodils and hardy flowers 
(bronze Banksian medal). 
CERTIFICATED PLANTS. 
L’trieularia rliytcroidiylla (Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P.).—An 
interesting and very distinct Utricularia, which recently flowered in 
s 5Ie.ssrs. Sanders’ nursery, at St. Albans. It has long narrow strap-like 
' leaves and tall slender racemes of flowers, the colour being a peculiar 
